Word: goldener
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play of its forward pack, the Harvard rugby club pushed the much bigger Kutztown Golden Bears around and defeated the visitors, 9-4, in front of a crowd of 125 spectators...
...golden arches stand tall over the competition in the huge fast-food industry, which rang up sales of $50.5 billion last year. McDonald's market share: 19%, in contrast to Burger King's 9% and Wendy's 5%, according to Analyst William Trainer, who follows the industry for Merrill Lynch. While the other hamburger chains posed fast-growing threats to McDonald's in past years, the rivals now have generally turned down the heat on their expansion...
McDonald's next frontier is the rest of the world, where it has already * made considerable progress. The company boasts some 2,140 foreign outlets in 42 different countries ranging from Nicaragua to the Netherlands. Today the golden arches grace some of Europe's most expensive real estate: next to Westminster Cathedral in London, on the corner of the Boulevards St. Michel and St. Germain in Paris, and opposite Parliament in the Hague. The biggest Mac branch of all, with 575 restaurants, is in Japan, where the company is known as Makudonarudo, or Makku-san for short...
...jumble of stalls, dense with the flow of human traffic and clattering with the din of vendors hawking wares, shoppers poke animals for tenderness and watch closely as purchases are weighed in hand-held balance scales, and mothers quiet crying children with cuts of sugarcane or towering lollipops of golden caramelized sugar pulled into flamboyant dragons...
...Chinese dish, by the way, is likely to be better than a Western-style choice, judging by the sorry fare offered at places such as the Golden Flower Hotel in Xi'an, the Jinjiang Guest House in Chengdu and the somewhat macabre copy of the Parisian Maxim's in Peking. Even Chinese breakfasts of rice porridge, pickles, pork and dumplings surpass their Western counterparts, although there were excellent room-service breakfasts at the Jinling Hotel in Nanjing and the luxurious White Swan Hotel in Canton...